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2 Flash LED handling under Linux
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5 Some LED devices provide two modes - torch and flash. In the LED subsystem
6 those modes are supported by LED class (see Documentation/leds/leds-class.rst)
7 and LED Flash class respectively. The torch mode related features are enabled
8 by default and the flash ones only if a driver declares it by setting
9 LED_DEV_CAP_FLASH flag.
11 In order to enable the support for flash LEDs CONFIG_LEDS_CLASS_FLASH symbol
12 must be defined in the kernel config. A LED Flash class driver must be
13 registered in the LED subsystem with led_classdev_flash_register function.
15 Following sysfs attributes are exposed for controlling flash LED devices:
16 (see Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led-flash)
19 - max_flash_brightness
26 V4L2 flash wrapper for flash LEDs
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29 A LED subsystem driver can be controlled also from the level of VideoForLinux2
30 subsystem. In order to enable this CONFIG_V4L2_FLASH_LED_CLASS symbol has to
31 be defined in the kernel config.
33 The driver must call the v4l2_flash_init function to get registered in the
34 V4L2 subsystem. The function takes six arguments:
37 flash device, e.g. an I2C device
39 of_node of the LED, may be NULL if the same as device's
41 LED flash class device to wrap
43 LED flash class device representing indicator LED associated with
44 fled_cdev, may be NULL
49 defines the source of the flash LED strobe -
50 V4L2_CID_FLASH_STROBE control or external source, typically
51 a sensor, which makes it possible to synchronise the flash
52 strobe start with exposure start,
53 * intensity_to_led_brightness and led_brightness_to_intensity
55 enum led_brightness <-> V4L2 intensity conversion in a device
56 specific manner - they can be used for devices with non-linear
59 configuration for V4L2 Flash sub-device
62 the name of the media entity, unique in the system,
64 bitmask of flash faults that the LED flash class
65 device can report; corresponding LED_FAULT* bit definitions are
66 available in <linux/led-class-flash.h>,
68 constraints for the LED in TORCH mode
71 constraints for the indicator LED
74 determines whether the flash strobe source
75 can be switched to external,
77 On remove the v4l2_flash_release function has to be called, which takes one
78 argument - struct v4l2_flash pointer returned previously by v4l2_flash_init.
79 This function can be safely called with NULL or error pointer argument.
81 Please refer to drivers/leds/leds-max77693.c for an exemplary usage of the
84 Once the V4L2 sub-device is registered by the driver which created the Media
85 controller device, the sub-device node acts just as a node of a native V4L2
86 flash API device would. The calls are simply routed to the LED flash API.
88 Opening the V4L2 flash sub-device makes the LED subsystem sysfs interface
89 unavailable. The interface is re-enabled after the V4L2 flash sub-device